
China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles.
14 - Chapter 14. China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles.
14 - Chapter 14. China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles. <br />Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy. <br />This series of lectures, published as “China and the Chinese”, was given at Columbia University in 1902, to mark the establishment of a Chinese professorship there. The lectures were not intended for the specialist, more to urge a wider and more systematic study of China and its culture, and to encourage new students into the field. ...

